[python-win32] Win API call to display a BMP/PNG file as a splash screen for a console app?

[Mike Driscoll]

Hi Malcolm

On 1:59 PM, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Is there a Windows API call I can use to display a BMP or a PNG file 
> in a window centered on a user's display? This function would be 
> called from a console app to display a splash screen.
> Motivation: I would like some of our customer facing Python console 
> utilities to display a splash screen. I don't need the complexity of a 
> full GUI framework like wxPython or pyQT and hopefully I can avoid the 
> need to use a full library like PIL.
> Thank you,
> Malcolm

There are ways to significantly reduce the wxPython footprint in your 
py2exe binary. Ask on the mailing list. Steven Sproat was talking about 
some methods last month and I think he said he had an exe that was 5 or 
7 MB when he was done.



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*Mike Driscoll*

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